St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 June 1896 — Page 6

£l)c independent. W. A. ENDI.ry, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - . INDIANA. TRADE IS HAMPERED. FRANCE HAS DESIGNS UPON AFRICA. Report of United States Consul Strickland—Cuban Insurgents Burn Buildings Across the Bay from Havana — Diamond Smuggler Comes to Grief. May Shut Us Out of Africa. Taking as his starting point the official announcement of the annexation by France of Timboo, the principal place in the Dialion country, a district larger than the State of Pennsylvania and quite as fertile, United States Consul Strickland, at Goree-Dakar, has made a'most interesting report to the State Department upon the dangers threatening the United States trade with Africa, owing to the rapid extension of the colonial possessions of the European nations. lie shows how the French, by the imposition of a discriminating duty of 7 per cent, against foreign goods, have monopolized the markets of the French colonies and have thus crushed out the lucrative and growing trade which the United States already enjoyed in that part of the world. He says that the process has now begun of fortifying perhaps the whole continent of Africa against us by protective tariffs; for if one nation can even now do it with ’ effect, the remainder will in time have to in order to equalize things among them- ,

selves. In Sight of Havana. The town of Guauabacoa, just across the bay from Havana. Cuba. was considerably’ excited Monday by an insurgent band burning various public buildings at a point in the suburbs known as Cucuranao. The band exchanged shots with the government pickets. The insurgents made unsuccessful attacks upon the government outposts at Gabriel. Ceiba de Lagan and various points along the Pinar del R.o trocha, burning adjacent houses in their retreat. The government is hurriedly re-enforcing the old military trocha from Moron to Ciego de Avila in the hope of preventing Gomez from reinvading the central provinces with fresh insurgent forces from the East. Patriotic Spanish merchants in Havana, Cienfugos and other Cuban ports are raising funds to buy and present to the Government a new ironclad. The subscription already exceeds $850,000, Standing of National League. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: AV. L. AV. U Cleveland . .25 13 Brooklyn . . .21 21 Baltimore . .26 15 Chicago . . . .21 23 Cincinnati ..27 17 Pittsburg . ..ID 21 Philadelphia 26 IS New York ..ID 24 Boston . ...23 IN St. Louis ...13 2D Vashington .21 ID Louisville ... 9 32 Western League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the AVestern League: AV. L. AV. L. Detroit ... .24 13 Minneapolis .21 19 Indianapolis 21 14 Milwaukee ..21 21 Kansas City 22 18 Columbus . . .1-5 27 St. Paul ..'.20 17 G'nd Rapids .12 28 Diamond Smuggler Sentenced.

Herman Keek, a member of the Coeter-man-Keck Diamond Cutting Company, of Cincinnati, who was convicted nt Philadelphia in the United States District Court of attempting to smuggle diamonds into this country, was sentenced by Judge Butler to one year's imprisonment and a fine of S2OO. Keck's prosecution was brought about by the Diamond Importers' Union of New York, and conviction was due mainly to the evidence of Captain Loesewitz, of the steamer Rhynland. who testified to having received a package containing $7,000 worth of diamonds from Keck in a restaurant in Antwerp, which was to be given to F. Vonnith, also of Cincinnati. Mexican Veterans Cheer for Cnba. The second annual reunion of the Mexican Veterans' National Interstate Association was held at Lexington, Ky. Thus. 11. Clay, grandson of Henry Clay, prerented a gavel to the association made ■ from asli grown at Ashland, his grandfather’s home. He said his grandfather was opposed to the annexation of Mexican territory and that opposition cost him the presidency. Maj. Samuel L. MeFarin, of Logansport. Ind., addressed the veterans on the history of the association, ami when he said he hoped another war would come which would free suffering Cuba the old soldiers cheered lustily. Another Chicago Robbery. Four safe robbers forced their way into the Cafeteria lunch room. 4G East Lake street, at o'clock 1 uesday night, and, after binding and gagging the two watchmen, attacked the vault in which there was several hundred dollars. They worked on the steel doors over an hour and then escaped with their booty. The scene of this latest piece of criminal daring was within 2<mi feet of State street, in the heart of the business

NEWS NUGGETS. A half-dozen scientists. members oj the faculty of Columbia University, have left New York for Port Townsend. Wash. They will spend the summer in the Puget Sound region, studying the fauna and flora and gathering original material for future investigation. U,ast fall the Canadian Government cruiser Petrel captured a Detroit tug and garbage scow in the Canadian waters of the Detroit river. Now Captain Delpier. of the captured scow, and his crew have sent in claims to the British Government for illegal seizure and imprisonment. asking S—o,ooo damages. the British authorities have referred the claim back to the Canadian Government. Jules Simon, the distinguished French statesman, formerly premier, who has been dangerously ill for some time, died at Paris Monday morning, aged 83 years. Stephen J. Ingalls has confessed to setting eleven fires in Gloucester. Mass., one of which destroyed the Bass Rock Hotel at Cape Ann. entailing a total loss exceeding $00,01)0. Richardson, Howe & Lovejoy, of Boston. manufacturers of ladies' and children’s garments, have made an assignment to Oliver Burrell, of Brown. Burrell & Co., and William H. Graves, c< Boston. Liabilities about $G5,000

EASTERN. Mrs. Maud Lascelles has been granted an absolute divorce at New York from her husband, Sidney Lascelles, alias “Lord Beresford.” The United S-tates battleship Massachusetts, built by the Cramps of Philadelphia, has been completed, and will go into commission during the month. Austin Corbin, the millionaire banker of New York, was fatally hurt Thursday afternoon and died at 9:42 that evening. Mr. Corbin was at his great forest and game preserve at Newport, N. H., and undertook to drive a pair of young and skittish horses. He was warned by Gardner, his coachman, not to do so, as the horses were very unruly and wild. Mi. Corbin persisted, and hitching them to a cart he, his grandson, Mr. Edgell, 11. Kunster and Gardner went for the dtive. The horses acted very badly, ami, in turning a corner, ran away and threw the four men heavily upon the ground. Gardner, who has also since died, and Mi. Corbin were terribly injured, and Mr. Edgell and Dr. Kunster severely so. An immense crowd of veterans of the late war and others gathered on Gettys burg battlefield Friday to wit ne: । the unveiling of the splendid equestrian statues erected by the State of Pcnnsylvama in honor of the memory George G. Meade and AVinfield S. Hancock. The statues unveiled were erected at the expense of the State and cost over The Hancock statue stands on East Cemetery hill, nearly opposite the National Cemetery gateway. It is ten feet high, resting on a pedestal ot blocks of granite, the whole 17 feet long. IO feet wide and 12 feet high. The horse and rider face southwest. General Hancock, ns if directing the movement of his troops on that line. The statue to General Meade stands on an elevation, west of his quarters, and quite near the “bloody

angle." It is almost 15 feet long. 8 feet wide and 10 feet high. Both statues are of the best quality of bronze, of heroic size, and are about thirty feet from the ground at the highest point. AVESTERN. The Edison building. one of the highest and best buildings in Minneapolis, Minn., adjoining the Lumber Exchange, caught fire Wednesday morning. The* firemen gained an almost miraculous victory. The loss, it is thought, will not exceed $50,000 ami may possibly be less. M. B. Curtis is in trouble again. His company is stranded at St. Paul and the members have attached the actor’s personal baggage. Central Kansas within a radius of fifty miles of Salina was deluged with a fall of water during Thursday night varying from five to eight inelu s. Gypsum creek is over a mile in width and the farms are under water. Adams County, (thio, boasts the youngest school teacher in < thio, if not in the United States. He is just 11 years old and his mime is Marion Glasgow. He attended the teachers’ examination at AA'est Union Saturday, attired in knickerbockers, and took his place among the grown applicants. He finished the work before" many of the older teachers were through The Missouri Supreme Court, sitting en banc, holds in the case of the St Louis Underground Service Company against the street commissioner of St. Louis that all city ordinances granting corporations the right to lay conduits and subways for i electric wires and other similar uses are void. The city holds the street in trust and cannot grant their use for private purposes. This opinion is of great im

portance in view of the proposal subway ' system now contemplated by St. Louis. It has l.een feared that n large number of the people now reported mi**.ng from East St. Louis found wa!< r\ graven. Tun bodies have been dragged from th<- Misissippi's waters. in addition a large number of horses and other animals haxe been found in the debris along the banks. A number of these horse* were fully bar nessed. and as the storm occiyrvd at a time when the river front was crowded with teams it i* thought that a number of the drivers may also have Ih en swept into the stream. Joseph AA’indrnth, murderer of Uarey B Birch, expiated h * crime on the gallows at Chicago. Muttering to the last his almost incoherent iargou about the bad box and rolling his eyes in accompaniment to a peculiar facial twitching, the man who was thought to be simulating insau ity dropped six feet, into eternity. When Sheriff L’ease read the death warrant the doomed man contented himself with glancing furtively at the sheriff and shouting the louder. Spiritual Adviser* Fathers Dore and Finn, of the Cathedral of Holy Name, worked assiduously for hours with the unfortunate man. but were unable to secure his participation in the rites of his church. Windrath refused to permit the men of cloth to accompany him on his last march. Twice when notified to prepare for the gallows the murderer attempted to batter his head against the wall of the little room, but the speedy use of handcuffs and firm words by the death watch placed him in a tractable manner. Saturday evening about 9 o'clock two desperadoes entered the L. Klein department store on Halsted street, in Chicago, while it was thronged with customers, with numerous clerks behind the counters. and robbed the female cashier in her cage, getting away with their plunder, which amount*" 1 t > between S3OO and

St.oo, Tiie vast throng- of customers were terrorized and panic-stricken. women screamed and fainted, a tire alarm was raised, the roblvers tired a shot or two ami forced their way to the door, through which they made their escape. One of them was grappled by an employe of the store, but wrenched himself away j and tied through the crowd. This is the ninth raid ami robbery of the kind in two months. The store selected as the scene of crime is always near a police patrol box. The movements of the police are watched, and soon after they leave the box to depart on their rounds the hold-up is committed, as the thugs know that they will be without police interruption for a sufficient time to cover the crime. 'l'he first attempt at murder since the beginning of the Milwaukee street car strike took place Thursday night and resulted in the wounding of a conductor and motorman, the first slightly and the last probably fatally. 'The names of the men are: John E. Been. Adolph Schwartz. The men operated a car on the line between the city and Cudahy, a suburb about four miles beyond the city limits to the south, and they were caught in an ambuscade planned for a deliberate attempt at murder. A tree was discovered across the track. Been stopped the car and got off to remove the obstruction. As he stepped to the ground, from the grove above there came a volley of shots. Two

arrests were made by the police. One of the suspects is 11. J. Gavigan, a striking motorman, who was formerly employed on the Cudahy line. When arrested he had are to! ver in his pocket. John Wnlters is the name of the other. He, too, had a revolver. Both were found in the vicinity of the shooting. Ip addition to this affair there were several acts'of lawlessness in the city. Barbed wire was stretched across a dark street so that it would have struck the motormen in the face, but was discovered. Cars were stoned in several places and officers have been placed on the night cars again. The directors of the Chicago Board of Trade at midnight AVednesday voted to find that the charges against Philip D. Armour, Jonathan O. Armour and P. D. Armour, Jr., comprising the great packing and elevator firm of Armour & Co., had not been sustained. The complaint ■was that the Armour Elevator Company's warehouses, “A.’ “B and R Annex.” were regarded by the firm as one house and that grain transferred from one to another was not inspected in passing or any inspection fee paid to the board for the transfer. At the same time it was charged that the warehouse receipts were rednted so that the traders who hud grain stored there had not time to get it removed and so wore obliged to pay storage. However, the same charges against Alastair I. Valentine, manager of the Armour system of elevators, were sustained and after a bitter fight over the question of punishment it was decided to suspend him for twenty years. The disposition of the cases of the millionaire packer and his two sons was easier of accomplishment, for only three directors voted to find them guilty as charged in the complaint of the committee. But a verdiet wholly exonerating them. or. rather, declaring that the charges had no foundation in fact, was prevented' by that clement in the board which is hostile to the packer. WASHINGTON. President Cleveland Saturday sent to both House and Senate his veto of the sundry civil appropriation bill, and in the House there was a sharp battle over the matter. The attempt to pass the bill over the President’s veto was, however, ineffectual. The House, by a vote of 153 to 33. seated George AA'. Murray, colored, who hits been contesting the seat of Mr. Elliott. Democrat, from the “black” or "shoestring" district of South Carolina. Party lines were strictly drawn, save that Mr. Parker (Republican) of New Jersey voted in favor of Elliott. Mr. Murray was escorted to the bar and sworn in amid vociferous Republican cheers. The Semite Wednesday passed the river and harbor bill over the President's veto by" the vote of 5(» to 5. This was the last step in making the bill effective and it is now a law. The vote was taken after three hours of spirited debate, during which the President was criticised and defended, the remarks nt times being directly and bitterly personal. The opposition to the veto was expressed by Senators Vest, Sherman. Pettigrew, Hawley and Butler, while the veto was defended by Senators A'ilas. Hill and Bate. FOREIGN. The Dublin police have tnndc an extra ordinary discovery of military rifles, bayonets and ammunition. This war material was found in n house in Lower Tyrone street. But all the articles are out of date ami appear to have been bidden there for a eonsiderabh" time. *, A d spatch from Brussels to the Paris Eclair says that a confidential note has just been addressed tn the Belgian Gov eminent announcing that ex Empress Eugenie ha* summoned a great meeting of French monarchists to take place in Bru* < seis during the nmnth of August. A dispatch received at Berlin from I Athens -as* that a Turkish detachment, consisting of eighty live men, which r< | turned to A anms. the town in the Island ' of Crete which was recently besieged tn i order to remove ear material, was cut t pieces by the insurgents, only two of the ■ Turks escaping. A dispatch to the London Daily Teh graph from Lorenzo MnrqUese, Delagoa Bay. says that Mr. Pointer, an America'; prospector, lias arrived there on the Har I lech Castle from TaimHave, Madngas. ur. ■ where the English ami American consuls i told him that it was u*eh -- to remain. i because the French refused H< eases to ! foreign pro*pedors. The national council of Su it z. r'aml ha* i expressed regret that the United States has not replied to the Swiss p: >p. s : ,| f. •- a conclusion of an arbitration treaty an 1 । has requested the bundesrath to demand a categoric answer. The president of the confederation. M. Adrien Ladunal. has declined to make tin l demand, although joining iu the expression of regret at the non receipt of a reply on the subject from America. The London Times has a dispatch from Athens which says that telegrams from the Island of Crete indicate a state of anarchy in the whole western portion of the island. In numerous villages the Turks are liesieged by the insurgent Christians. Wherever the Mohamnudans are in a majority they plunder ami murder the Christians. The sounds of battles in the villages aie distinctly heard on board the warships in Suda Bay. Mr. Spring, in announcing, nt Cape Town, the budget in the assembly, said the available surplus was SI,2S<UHM); estimated surplus, net, for the year. sS22.(hmi. He also produced statistics showing an unprecedented prosperity in all directions and expressed the opinion that the high price of Cape stock was partly due to the fact that the colony was a part of the British Empire, and. he added, the power which commands the sea must dominate | South Africa. John A. Finnigan, the special correspondent of the AA’atertown, N. Y.. Standard in the Island of Cuba, lias been expelled by Captain General AVeyler. Mr. Finnigan had been in Cuba since April. He was twice arrested and sent back to Havana. Last week he left the city contrary to the orders of the authorities. On his return Mr. Finnigan was warned that he must leave by the Saratoga, which sailed Sunday. He was placed under a strong guard, but managed to get a message off through, a friend. The Pretoria correspondent of the London Times says: “President Kruger is anxious to commute the death sentences of the reform leaders to a heavy fine, but the other members of the executive council object on the ground that the Government would lie charged with mercenary motives. They suggest that they should be confined for five years in prison. Meantime, the release of the other reformers has done little to assuage the feeling on the Rand and the persons of President Kruger and Secretary of State Leyds are more carefully guarded by the police than

ever. The first fort on the hills south of Pretoria is being rapidly built under the direction of a German military engineer ” John rerrez, a wealthy Cuban cattle dcnlpr, is in Hnltiinoro, having nurrowly escaped being summarily shot in his native land upon the charge of having furnished_arms to the msurgeuts. Mr Perrez was arrested m SancH ^plritus, Cuba Feb. 24, and thrown into jail. A few days later, without any trial, he says, he was told that he was to be shot June 14. By the liberal use of money among the ptison officials and through the influence of powerful friends on the outside, ho was granted ‘provisional freedom,” which meant that he must remain within reach of tin* Spanish authorities. Becoming alarmed at the fate of the others who had been treated likewise, he fled to this country. A bomb was thrown into the crowd during the Corpus Christi procession at Barcelona, Spain, and its explosion resulted in the killing of seven persons and the injury of fifty. The perpetrator of the deed is unknown, and his motive is a mystery. The explosion occurred just as the procession was entering the beautiful and ancient Church of Santa Maria del Mar. This is one of the most thickly populated quarters of the populous city. The sound of the explosion and the distressed cries of the injured and the friends of the killed created an indescribable panic among the great crowd in the procession and lookerson. The people wore terror-stricken with dread of other bombs being thrown, and it was with difficulty that they were restrained from crushing each other in the stampede. .A terrific scene ensued, after the explosion. Seven dead bodies and forty persons severely injured wore found. The police have picked up thirty fragments of bombs in the street. IN GENERAL. I he nail trust is likely to collapse because outside mills refuse to enter the combination. A Aaneouver syndicate has just completed negotiatim.s for the purchase of ten rich claims accidentally discovered in Cayuse creek, in the Liilooet district, by a half-breed while hunting mountain sheep a few days ago. Liilooet has long been known as a rich gold district, especially near Cayuse creek. Minors and prospectors have for a long time searched for the mother vein, which, it is believed, has at last been discovered. The vein has been stripped 120 feet and shown to be eight feet wide. Assays from samples run $505 to the ton. A. AA’. Smith, member of the provincial parliament ami an old resident of the district, says it is the richest thing yet seen. R. G. Dun & Co.’s AA’eekly Review of Trade says: “It is highly suggestive that, with as little help ns there is now from new business, markets are so nearly maintained. Summer is nt hand, ami with new crops promising well and obi stocks large, it is no womb r that the farm products are cheap. The fa tones and mills are still wailing for the rush of business seen last year, and in spite of narrow order* at pr<-ent are generally holding on with much confident e. It is so lute that gold exports no longer alarm, for the date of expected returns draws near The opinion gains ground that more active business is to be rxpcv ted after the con- j rentions have l»em heM and the safety l ami sufficiency of crop* have hvi-n assured. Low pri- ea at this -< ason .-iff-. t farm ' er* very little, but the spe- ulafors who I have bought from them for a rise. The i wheat yield is estimated at half a billion i bushels." Affairs in the st >rm ridden districts at ■ St. are taking on a more cheerful i aspect. The fir«t rush for relief is over. 1 nml then- is evidence of general improve- ' meat iii th< condition "<f tornado sufferers. | There is a noticeable decrease in the num- i i her of npplp a’. ns fm AVhatev. r re- ; main* from the general fund will l*e left ।in the keeping of the Mi tibr.it’ Ex- i change rommitte.*, wh: h will continue ! i the work wherever m-<« ’-ary. Ihe relief ! ' fund has re ,t. in d slMt.-gll. In nil parts of the tornad«» d.strict houses arc b< mg ! made habitable om <■ more and demolish- j ■ e l buildings are being rapidlv n-lmilt In ' i East St. I/mi* the work of restoration | | goes on steadily, and there is no abate- j I meat of the relief committee’’ work. ■ j Many jH-oplc emiq» lid to live in tents | until their demolished hom*-* are reputm ! | are Is-.-oming accu.’:om. I to their new | cuvirotinu tits. In some plant - tenants j • live in box eirx. William Cogan, an en- । ; gineer on the RaHimm-e ami Ohio Rail- i j way, who was injured ::i the storm, ha* ; i died nt the home -f a frieiri as a t’ sujt i jof his W ■amis. N. e . f the pati> ats in I the hospitals have died during the last two days. and. according to the state- | ments of attending physicians, no more । fataiitms wid be rep< rhd. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago -Cattle, common to prime, i s3.*at to Sl.si»: hogs, shipping grades, ■ S3.(M) to 53.75; sheep, fair to choice. 82.5 u to 54.5 u: wheat. Au. 2 red. 5De to IlDc; . corn. No. 2. 27e to . .. its, No. 2. 17c to Is. ; rye. No. 2. 32c to 34c; butter, choice creamery. 14c t > Hie; eggs, fresh. De to He; potatoes, per bushel. 2Oe to 30c; broota corn. 2c to 4c per lb for common growth to fine brush. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. s3.’«i to $4.50; hogs, choice light. $3.<M) to $3.50; sheep, common to prime. 82.00 to 84.00; wheat. No. 2. tail- t > (>2<-; corn. No. 1 white, 2Sc to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle. S3.(MI to $4.7>0; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2 red. 58c to 60c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 25c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye. No. 2. 31c to 33.". Cincinnati- -Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. S3.»M» to $3.50; sheep. $2.50 to $3.75: wlicat. No. 2,63 c to 64e; corn. No. 2 mixed. 28c to 20c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22e; rye. No. 2. 35c to 37c. Detroit Cattle. $2.,50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $3.50; slusp. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 63c to <»sc: corn. No. 2 yellow. 20c to 2Sc; oats. No. 2 white, 21c to 22e; rye. 34c to 36c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 red. 66c to G7c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 2sc; oats, No. 2 white. 18c to 20c; rye. No. 2,34 cto 36c; clover seed. $4.3,> to $4.40. Milwaukee —AA’heat. No. 2 spring. 58e to (iOc; corii. No. 3. 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 20c; barley. No. 2,31 cto 32c; rye, No. 1,33 cto 34c; pork, mess, $7.00 to $7.50. Buffalo —Cattle. $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.25 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York —Cattle. $3.00 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $2.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; butter, creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, AA’estern, lie to 13c.

BIG BULGE IN AVHEAT CHICAGO PIT IN A TURMOIL OF EXCITEMENT. Bad Crop Reports at Home and Abroad Responsible for the WhirlDeath of Capt. John G. Bourke, a Gallant Soldier. Traders Excited. Chicago wheat prices oscillated Monday with the eccentricity of a short pendulum in an old-fashioned clock. The effect was that of making one of the wildest markets of the year. July wheat opened with a rush at from 62^ cents to 62’4 cents, and in a short time was crowded down to Gl l /. cents. Bull efforts were soon redoubled, however, and an exciting boom sent the cereal to 63% cents, or a rise of 2 cents , ’® ve ^ le lowest price previously made. J his, coming upon the total advance of 7 cents a bushel made last week, indicated the possibility of a further rise of a considerable amount. Julj"’ closed Saturday worth from 61% cents to 62. One of the primary upward “boosts” given the market was due to Thoman’s crop report showing a deterioration of 11 per cent in the condition of winter wheat during the month of May in the six principal States of its growth. The report indicated also a probability that the spring wheat crop would be 75,(KH),(»(M» bushels smalled than that of the year before. To add to the situation news from the foreign markets was that they were all higher.

Soldier and Author I xpircs. Captain John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry U. S. A., died Monday at the Olyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, where he had been under treatment for about three weeks. Captain Bourke was 53 years old. He was stationed at Fmt Ethan Allen, Vermont. He leaves a widow and three daughters. His wife was with him at the time of his death, but the three daughters were at their home in Burlington, A’t. Captain Bourke had a brilliant record as a gallant soldier. He enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in lSti2 and took part in the campaign of the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans and I'homas. He was awarded a medal of honor for gallantry at Stone River. At the close of the war he was appointed by President Lincoln a cadet-at-hirge to the West Point Military Academy, from which he graduated in l^tlD. He saw much service in Indian warfare, and was mentioned iu general orders fm gallantry in engagements with Indians He was a member of s iontitie societies in France. England and the Fnited States, and wrote much up m anthropology and folk lore. (>nc of his most valuable monographs upon the medicine men of the Apaches was published by the Smithsonian Institution. His most popular Ixioks, "On the Border AA’ith (’rook." “An Apache Campaign" ami "The Snake Dance of the Moquis," have had editions in New York and London. Marked Favors to Jews. Much interes’ h:.* been created in Loni d<»n Jewish circles by the honors and dec- | orations liestowcd by the Czar on Rabbis j in connection with the coronation, and j e<qiecia’ly the unusual consideration ’ shown to Jew ish saseeptibilities. For instnnC"'. in eas. s where a gold cross is • w< m as a s tn of an order, ami that order J has been eonferrtsl on Jews, a special ! c-’id im- ial has Im"n ma le for the Rabbis. It is I* Hevc.) that these various marks of i consideration indicate an era of greater t<>l< ram e of lib. rty to the Jews in Russia. BREVITIES, The Treasury Department has issued n l call on depository banks f.,r the balance of their holding* of Government money. The amount involved is about $ 1.5m).0h0. John AV. Hay. assistant editor of tin ; Sa'i Fran - <> J . irmt! of I 'ommeree, was *hot air! k i Stn la;. n cht by Mr*. 1 Minn Maedougall. who is said to be the i wife es a drummer for a Chicago barbed i ware eompany. The woman tiieu shot her- | seif thr. mgh the heart. X ray photographs were excluded from ! court in Boston. Mass., in the famous Rexford Rogers suit for s7>ojmmi damages. 13 xford. a boy of 3 years, fell into an ; elevator well of an apartment house and ! fractured his skull so badly that hi* mind ■ wI- affeeted. A number of N ray phoI to-raphs i f the boy’s head had been prepnred. but the judge refused to allow | t'm tn to be presented in any form. The । verdict was for the defendants. The western cyclones of the last month j have cause 1 a sudden demand fur window I glass and stock* at the various selling i agencies in the AA’est have been greatly I re bleed. The unexpected demand has encouraged ’ll" independent factories in the AA’est. a* well as those in the Pittsburg i distr ’ Factorie- with 21S-pot capacity are in operation at New Kensington. Wilmington. Del.: Norristown. Fa.: Dunkirk. Alexandria and Pendleton, In k. and Ithaca. N. Y. AA’orn out with the trials of life, Mrs. Anna Kock threw herself into Mud lake, near the Chicago bridewell. Monday evening, dragging her 10-year-old son with her and carrying her 3-months‘-old baby on her arm. The baby arid herself were drowned, and the boy, after a few moments’ struggle in the water, was rescued by some older Ixjys who were in the water bathing fifty yards away. The woman had quarreled with her husband over a slight punishment of the boy for running away from school. About ti year ago she was confined in the detention hospital for one month, as her mind almost failed. A slight improvement prevente 1 a trial for insanity, but her mind had never been right since that time. Burglars invaded the residence of Christoph Hotz. Chicago, and carried away silverware valued at 82.ihmi. They forced a window opening from a porch into the parlor and left the same way. Strangely enough, the burglar alarm on the window failed to work, the private watchman saw .nothing suspicious and the family watchdog was not aroused. The big department store of Janies N. McKendry & Co. at Toronto, Ont., was gutted by fire Monday night. McKendry carried a stock valued at $150,000. which is lost. The fire spread to the department store of the T. Eaton Company. AA’ith an oath upon his lips and forgiveness for all Bill Gay died Monday at Helena, Mont., on the scaffold for the murder of Bill Macke in 1893. He denied to the last that he killed Macke. He was so weak from loss of food and sleep that it was necessary to administer hypodermics to enable him to walk to the gallows.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Hulls oF Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The Senate Thursday passed the filledcheese bill. Manufacturers of tilled cheese are taxed S4OO annually; wholesaledealers, $250; retail dealers, $l2O. In addition to these taxes, the product itself' is taxed 1 cent per pound, and imported filled cheese is taxed 8 cents per pound in addition to the import duty. All packages*, must be branded, and dealers must display a big black sign on white ground, bearingthe words "Filled Cheese Sold Here.” The controversy over the number of battle ships remains open, Mr. Quay’s motion that the Senate recede from its amendment reducing the number of ships from four to two being defeated—l7 to 38. The Senate also defeated by a vote of 17' to 31 a motion b.v Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts to recede from its amendment relating to sectarian Indian schools. Bills were passed as follows: Granting IGG acres of land to Biloxi, Miss., for a charitable hospital: authorizing the appointment of the survivors of the Lady Franklin bay expedition as sergeants, retired, of the army; for the improvement of Fort Smith, Ark., government reservation, and a bill construing the laws relating to the

award of life-saving medals. By a vote of 1.»3 to 33 the House decided against (he claim of AVilliam Elliott from the First South Carolina district and gave the seat to George AA’. Murray. Murray is h colored man and in the Fifty-first Congress was seated in the place of Elliott. Murray was given a round of applause when he came forward to be sworn in. Mr. Elliott is the ninth Democrat unseated by the present House. Theremainder of the day was mainly occupied in debating the case of Martin vs. Lockhart from the Seventh North Carolina district. The Senate amendmentsto the bill to retire Commander Quackenbush wore adopted. The conference report on the bill to pension the widow <tf the late Senator George Spencer of Alabama was agreed to. Mr. Morgan gave the Senate a spirited revival of the Cuban question Friday, after which most of the day was spent in waiting for conference agreements on appropriation bills. Mr. Morgan urged theadoption of his resolution calling on thePresident for information of the Americans taken on the Competitor and now under sentence of death at Havana. TheSenator asserted that the President’s inaction was a violation of law. Mr. Morran declared that Congress should not adjourn without authorizing the Presi- ■ Cnt to send warships to Cuba to demana the release of the American prisoners. < Mi the suggestion of Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. the Senate went into secret session, where, afier a further argument by Mr. Morgan, his resolution was placed on t’mt calendar, a parliamentary move equiva- । lent to postponing action. In the House, , Mr. Grosvenor called up his resolution ri’questing the Pn sident end the several cabinet officers for a detailed statement f the removals from office since March 3. ISD3, and the appointments since that date, together with the number of exi soldiers who have been appointed, pro- . moted. reduced or removed. The resolution was adopted—l 47 to 4S. The voteon the contested election case of Martin vs. Lockhart from the Seventh North Carolina district resulted 113 to 5. Mr. Martin came forward and took the oath. The i Rina kcr-Downing contest from Illinois rt- • suited in favor of Mr. Rinaker. Presiilent Cleveland Saturday vetoeil - the general deficiency appropriation bill. The President objected to it because < f provisions for the payment of French spoliation and Chouteau claims and other items which he does not enumerate. AVhen. I the message was read to the House a motion to pas* the bill notwithstanding the veto was lost 40 to 149. Thereupon the- ! House promptly sent to the Senate a new bill without the features to which the President objected. This was not donewithout some spiriie 1 debate, during which the President was bitterly attavki। J. The Senate had barely a quorum, ami nothing of importance was done. The new deficiency bill, framed to meet the objections of the President’s recent \eto. passed in the Senate Monday. it came from the House, amid great cheering. When the immigration bill wax taken up Mr. Morgan of Alabama spoke in support of his amendment, that the restrictions of the act should not apply to pers >ns coming to this country from Cuba. He said no country had contributed a better class of people to this country’s population than Cuba. In the House, the Sherman resolution relative to Virginia bonds was adopted. A special deficiency bill providing for the pay of salaries of members seated by the House and for several other minor matters waspassed ttnder suspension of the rules; alsoa bill to establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, 1 Kan. The eonferenee report on the Indian appropriation bill containing the compromise relative to tile old settlers' claim was agreed to and the bill sent to further conference. Mr. Daniels again called up the Aldrich-Underwood contest- ' ed election case. This aroused the ire of 1 the Democrats. The question of consideration was raised, but this time the House decided. 13G to 6>. to consider the ease. During the progress of the roll call many of the Democrats left the hall. Mr. McMillin of Tennessee attempted to force a division on the eonferenee report on theDistrict of • 'ohimbin bi!’, as a means of developing that no quorum wa- present, but Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, whn was temporarily in rhe chair. manipuiate<l the parliamentary situation so as to prevent this, and subsequently, despite the warm protests of Mr. Terry of Arkansas, declined to entertain an appeal from His decision. This and That. The branches of the Mississippi Riverhave au aggregate length of fifteen thousand miles. Most physicians thinks that the sun radiates heat as it does light or as a stove emits warmth. The horn of the rhinoceros is not joined to the bone of the head, but grows on the skin like a wart or corn. Microscopists say that the strongest miscroscopes do not, probably, reveal the lowest stages of animal life.